Theres some yadda-yadda that goes in here, involving Bosh, going to Elf jail, a little light torture thanks to Memnarch, becoming part of a Memnite hive mind, becoming a planeswalker in a roundabout way, rejecting a job offer from Karn, and being killed by random Goblins
That might come from destroying more of your opponents' cards, drawing a lot of cards, or in the case of Decree of Pain , maybe both
Rise of the Floodborn is already shaking things up - though the current frontrunner appears to be an Amber/Emerald Discard deck, so any deck playing Hiram Flaversham will have some stiff competition
And to the last point, its hard to look at the list of most popular generals of all timecurrently Atraxa, Praetors Voice, Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Breya, Etherium Shaper, Oloro, Ageless Ascetic, and Nekusar, the Mindrazer are the top fiveand not think that Commander products have done some homogenizing of the format
[5] Blocking is actually what makes deathtouch so powerful
We'll see those different ways when we examine the cards